But, after all this, “shall they fall and not arise? shall he turn away and not return?” Why hath the virgin turned away in so shameless an apostasy?—­and that, too, after having heard Christ, the bridegroom, saying by Jeremiah, “And I said, after she had lewdly done all these things, turn thou unto me.  But she returned not,” “Is there no balm in Gilead?  Is there no physician there?  Why, then, is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?” Truly thou mightest find in the Divine Scriptures many remedies for such an evil—­many medicines that recover from perdition and restore to life; mysterious words about death and resurrection, a dreadful judgment, and everlasting punishment; the doctrines of repentance and remission of sins; those innumerable examples of conversion—­the piece of silver, the lost sheep, the son that had devoured his living with harlots, that was lost and found, that was dead and alive again.  Let us use these remedies for the evil; with these let us heal our souls.  Think, too, of thy last day (for thou art not to live always, more than others), of the distress, and the anguish, as the hour of death draws nearer, of the impending sentence of God, of the angels moving on rapid wing, of the soul fearfully agitated by all these things, and bitterly tormented by a guilty conscience, and clinging pitifully to the things here below, and still under the inevitable necessity of taking its departure.  Picture to thy mind the final dissolution of all that belongs to our present life, when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, with his holy angels; for he “shall come, and shall not keep silence,” when he shall come to judge the living and the dead, and to render to every man according to his work; when the trumpet, with its loud and terrible echo, shall awaken those who have slept from the beginning of the world, and they shall come forth, they that have done good to the resurrection of the life, and they that have done evil to the resurrection of damnation.  Remember the divine vision of Daniel, how he brings the judgment before our eyes.  “I beheld,” says he, “till the thrones were placed, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool; his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.  A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him; thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the judgment was set, and the books were opened,” revealing all at once in the hearing of all men and all angels, all things, whether good or bad, open or secret, deeds, words, thoughts.  What effect must all these things have on those who have lived viciously?  Where, then, shall the soul, thus suddenly revealed in all the fullness of its shame in the eyes of such a multitude of spectators—­Oh, where shall it hide itself?  In what body can it endure those unbounded and intolerable torments of the unquenchable fire, and the tortures of the